Egypt finishes planting 1.5 million palm trees in the world's largest palm farm

Published Mar 5, 2023

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The Ministry of Agriculture in Egypt is taking steps to cultivate high-economic value palms, with a focus on dates. The government is planning to establish the world's largest date farm in the New Valley, spanning 37,000 acres and hosting 2.3 million palm trees. The initial phase of the project has seen the planting of 1.5 million superior date palm trees, with the remaining 800,000 expected to be planted soon. The farm is expected to produce approximately 230,000 tons of dates annually. The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has highlighted the strategic importance of the date crop in Egypt and has launched a program to develop the palm and dates sector through a training program for date producers.

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Dr. Ezz El-Din Jadallah Al-Abbasi, Director of the Central Date Palm Laboratory at the Ministry of Agriculture, said that there is a great interest from the political leadership in cultivating types of palms of high economic value, especially since Egypt's production of dates is not exported in large quantities because most of the cultivated types of dates are in Egypt. For externally undesirable varieties. Al-Abbasi added, in exclusive statements to “Akhbar Al-Youm Gate”: “But these varieties that were cultivated are requested from abroad, so President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi decided to establish the largest date farm in the world on an area of 37 thousand acres and includes 2.3 million palm trees in the New Valley, so that Egypt becomes one of the first countries in the production and export of dates. The director of the Central Palm Laboratory pointed out that about 1.5 million palm trees of excellent types such as Majdoul, Al-Khalas Al-Anbara, Ajwa Al-Madina, Al-Shishi and ...

Source: Akhbarelyom